Occupy Wall Street

Random.Capital · Oct 15, 2011

Quote from oldtime:

Low stable energy for a couple of years would solve a lot of these seemingly unsolvable problems.

I don't believe there is enough supply of "low stable" to allow for anything but a temporary deferral on the inevitable.

Could be wrong, of course, but that's my personal assessment.

MarketMasher · Oct 15, 2011

Quote from oldtime:

yeah MarketMasher, say you're the reporter and you go to the program director with the facts. She says, "People can't understand that. All we want to know is who the bad guy is."

Not a good enough reason when all the reporter has to ask their guests are 2 basic questions:

1) How much in total dollars would it amount to if every US subprime loan defaulted?
2) Are those loans in and of themselves enough to cause the world-wide recession?

It is avoidance of asking those question in the media that leads one to believe what Nouriel Roubini said when he was asked "Why don't they investigate it?" His answer was "Because then you would find the culprits."

Not only is there no investigation, the media doesn't ask.

trefoil · Oct 15, 2011

Quote from oldtime:

When he was a child a Christian family took him in and pretended he wasn't jewish. He was forced to take a job working for the Nazis turning in jews who were hiding out. Basically he was just an assistant. Sort of like when I was a kid and my job was to stand in front of the bowling alley and tell all black customers arriving that tonight was league play only.

You really do believe everything you ever hear, don't you? Look at what you yourself wrote. There's a logical chasm in the middle of it you could fly a Dreamliner through.
Not that you'd ever see it. Pathetic.

oldtime · Oct 15, 2011

Quote from trefoil:

You really do believe everything you ever hear, don't you? Look at what you yourself wrote. There's a logical chasm in the middle of it you could fly a Dreamliner through.
Not that you'd ever see it. Pathetic.

I've been looking at it and nope, I don't see it. I guess you were right.

oldtime · Oct 15, 2011

Soros was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, the son of the Esperantist writer Tivadar Soros and Elizabeth Soros. Tivadar (also known as Teodoro) was a Hungarian Jew, who was a prisoner of war during and after World War I and eventually escaped from Russia to rejoin his family in Budapest.[7][8] Tivadar taught George to speak Esperanto from birth. Soros later said that he grew up in a Jewish home and that his parents were cautious with their religious roots.[9] Soros was thirteen years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.[10] Soros took a job with the Jewish Council,[7] which had been established during the Nazi occupation of Hungary to carry out Nazi and Hungarian government anti-Jewish measures.[11][12] Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis:

The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper...It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am...And I was given this list of names. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, "You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported."[13]

Later that year, at age 14, Soros lived with and posed as the godson of an employee of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture. On one occasion, the official was ordered to inventory the remaining contents of the estate of a wealthy Jewish family that had fled the country.[14] Rather than leave the young Soros alone in the city, the official brought him along. The following year, Soros survived the Battle of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city

nitro · Oct 15, 2011

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-run-on-citibank-ends-in-arrests/

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stock777 · Oct 16, 2011

i expected these riots the week after the 2008 collapse . guess those welfare checks kept them quiet for a bit

SouthAmerica · Oct 16, 2011

October 15, 2011

SouthAmerica: The guillotine worked overtime during the French Revolution.

"Let them eat cake"

The answer:

The Guillotine

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wildchild · Oct 16, 2011

Alot of people point to the Rick Santelli rant as one of the one main things that got the Tea PArty rolling. We all remember this one.

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Now, what got this Occupy Wall Street thing going. I think it has to be Al Sharpton. This was on Aug 10 so the timing is about right. Listen to this guy.

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nitro · Oct 16, 2011